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6,416 terms

Defense terms

  1. Army Space Operations Center (ARSPOC) The Army Space Command Center responsible for logistically/ administratively controlling assigned SDS elements and which shall also include the capability…
  2. ARNG Army National Guard.
  3. AROS Airborne Radar Optical System.
  4. ARP address resolution protocol.
  5. ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Formerly known as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
  6. ARPANET ARPA Network.
  7. ARRC Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps.
  8. ARROC Army Regional Operations Center.
  9. Arrow A technology demonstration program started in 1988 and designed to meet Israeli architecture requirements for area defense of population centers against…
  10. ARS Abbreviation for autonomous(ly) replicating segment (or sequence).
  11. ARSCS Automated Rear Services Control System.
  12. ARSPACE U.S. Army Space Command.
  13. ARSPACECOM [United States] Army Space Command.
  14. ARSPOC Army Space Operations Center.
  15. ARU Alignment Reference Unit (PAC-3).
  16. ASA Abbreviation for allele-specific amplification.
  17. ASAF Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.
  18. ASAF (A) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition).
  19. ASARC Army Systems Acquisition Review Council.
  20. ASARS Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System.
  21. ASAS (1) All Source Analysis System. (2) Advanced Solid Axial Stage.
  22. ASAT Antisatellite Weapon.
  23. ASB Aviation Support Branch
  24. ASBM Air-to-Surface Ballistic Missile.
  25. ASC Administrative Service Center.
  26. ASCC Alaskan System Coordination Council (part of NERC).
  27. ASCII An acronym for American Standard Code that allocates a number to each key on the keyboard and that can be traded and read by most computer systems.
  28. ASCM Advance Spaceborne Computer Module
  29. ASCO Advanced Systems Concept Office
  30. ASCON Associate Contractor
  31. ASD (1) OBSOLETE Aeronautical Systems Division (AF). See Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC). (2) Assistant Secretary of Defense.
  32. ASDC Alternated Space Defense Center
  33. ASDP Advanced Sensor Demonstration Program.
  34. ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
  35. ASEDP Army Space Exploitation Demonstration Program.
  36. ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit.
  37. ASIOE Associated Support Items of Equipment (USA term).
  38. ASL Above Sea Level
  39. ASM (1) Anti-Simulation. (2) Anti-ship Missile. (3) Air-to-Surface Missile.
  40. ASMD Anti-ship Missile Defense.
  41. ASMDC Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, AL (1998).
  42. ASMP French Air Surface Missile
  43. ASN Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
  44. ASN (RD&A) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development & Acquisition).
  45. ASN (SB&L) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics).
  46. ASOC Air Support Operations Center.
  47. ASP (1) Airborne Surveillance Platform. (2) Advanced Sensor Program. (3) Advanced Sensor Platform. (4) Annual Service Practice.
  48. ASPADOC The backup to the SPADOC, maintained by the Naval Space Command, at Dahlgren, VA, collocated with the NAVSPOC and NAVSPASUR.
  49. ASPIRIS Advanced Signal Processing for IR Sensors.
  50. ASPJ Airborne Self Protection Jammer 23
  51. ASPO Army Space Program Office.
  52. ASR Alkali-silica reaction.
  53. ASROC Antisubmarine Rocket.
  54. ASSERT To assert a patent is to attempt to enforce it. To attempt to prevent an unlicensed party from practicing an invention.
  55. Assessment Charges levied against a property for tax purposes or to pay for municipal or association improvements such as curbs, sewers, or grounds maintenance.
  56. ASSIST Automated Systems Security Incident Support Term (DISA term).
  57. Associated Object Object that remains near a deployed reentry vehicle, decoy or chaff puff.
  58. Assume Course Orientation Make course attitude adjustments to the weapon platform orientation prior to engagement.
  59. Assured Defense Strategies and tactics that result in (specified) a high probability of kill against designated targets, regardless of the interceptors required.
  60. Assured Kill This option requires defense segments to employ tactics, which produce the highest probability of kill consistent with the available number of defensive…
  61. AST (1) See Airborne Surveillance Testbed . (2) Advanced Sensor Technology.
  62. ASTMP Army Science and Technology Master Plan
  63. ASTP Advanced Sensor Technology Program
  64. ASWG Architecture Systems Working Group.
  65. AT Advanced Technology
  66. ATA (1) Advanced Test Accelerator. (2) Avionics Test Article.
  67. ATACC (1) Advanced Tactical Command Central (USMC term). (2) Advanced Theater Air Command Center
  68. ATACM Army Tactical Missile
  69. ATACMS Army Tactical Missile System.
  70. ATAF Allied Tactical Air Force (NATO).
  71. ATB (1) Allied Test Bed. (2) Analytical Tool Box.
  72. ATBM (1) Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile. (2) Anti- Theater Ballistic Missile 24
  73. ATC Air Traffic Control
  74. ATCCS Army Tactical Command and Control System
  75. ATCOM Army Aviation and Troop Command (pre-Oct 96) (See AMCOM)
  76. ATD Advanced Technology Demonstration.
  77. ATDL Army Tactical Data Link.
  78. ATDM Adaptive Time Division Multiplexer.
  79. ATDS Airborne Tactical Data System.
  80. ATE Automatic Test Equipment.
  81. ATH Above the Horizon
  82. ATHS Airborne Target Handover System.
  83. ATI Advanced Technology Interceptor
  84. ATIM Advanced Technology Insertion Module
  85. ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
  86. ATM Anti-Tactical Missile.
  87. ATMD Army Theater Missile Defense.
  88. ATMDF Air and Theater Missile Defense Force (US Army term).
  89. ATMDPO Army Theater Missile Defense Program Office.
  90. ATO authority to operate
  91. ATOC Air Tactical Operations Center.
  92. ATODB Air Tasking Order Database.
  93. ATP A substance present in all living cells that provides energy for many metabolic processes and is involved in making RNA.
  94. ATP&FC Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing, and Fire Control.
  95. ATR Autonomous/Automated Target Recognition.
  96. ATRJ Advanced Threat Radar Jammer.
  97. ATSIM Acquisition and Track Simulation.
  98. Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater (ALERT) An upgrade to ground station mission processing which exploits inherent satellite capability to provide theater missile warning and cueing. 25
  99. Attack Assessment (AA) An evaluation of information to determine the potential or actual nature and objectives of an attack for the purpose of providing information for timely…
  100. Attack Characterization The process by which the parameters of an attack in progress are developed, updated and defined.

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